Sound Off for Tuesday, June 10, 2014

“Henry From Glen Mills,” I’d rather Wolf spend his own money instead of being bankrolled by special interest lobbyists then let them dictate his policies like Corbett.

SUE FROM BROOKHAVEN

WHY THEY’RE BRAIN DEAD

To “Cursive Not A Priority,” you’re kidding, right? All kids use their hands for today are tablets and smartphones. The devices do all the work and the kids don’t have to use their brains. I guess you learned cursive but never sat down and handwrote a letter or a thank you card.

CONCERNED GRANDMOM

‘PUNCH’ IS A HIT

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The “Punch Shots” columns in your sports section is so much better these days. Congrats to David Markowitz on his recent “shot” regarding critics of LeBron James. Like him or not, LeBron is a great player. What was great about Markowitz’s “punch” was about the “shock-jock” mentality of the critics like Skip Bayless and, I would add, local sports talk people who play nasty games with peoples’ lives for ratings. I cannot even listen to any local sports talk shows because most are mean, vile, uneducated Monday morning quarterbacks who don’t care who they hurt. Since newspapers are often writing reviews and ratings of athletes and politicians, how about a review or grading of the local sports talk people? Let’s see how they fare and let them have a little taste of their own medicine.

‘PUNCH SHOT’ FAN IN SPRINGFIELD

THAT’S THE SOLUTION

If the majority of Americans went to a four-day, 10-hour a day workweek, it would really put some heat on the oil companies. It would be one less driving for everybody and I think it would help lower the price of oil.

HENNY THE BARTENDER

THE DETAILS, PLEASE

Anyone who pays their telephone bill sees extra costs added on because of our state and federal government. For my land line phone, I pay $84.12, of which $21.13 are government fees and taxes. Since our governments do not run the telephone company, what are these really charges for?

THEY’RE HYPOCRITES

To “Baffled On Beatty Road,” the members of the tea party claim that they’re patriots, strict constitutionalists, and oppose small government, although I’d wager that 90 percent of them receive some kind of government assistance.

SAME OLD — AND WE MEAN OLD

On Friday, I was watching TV and some Republicans were on saying that Hillary Clinton would be too old to be elected president. The last time I crunched the number, if Hillary’s elected, she’ll be 68 when she assumes office, one year younger than Ronald Reagan when he assumed office. How can anyone take Republicans seriously when this is their argument against Hillary? Oh wait, I forgot that Reagan was the infallible, greatest president ever, so he could have been 35 or 95 and it would have made no difference. But people must like this kind of nonsense, because they keep supporting the two-party system.

THE BIGGEST LOOPHOLE

To “More Excuses From Barry,” if you read through the four-figure amount of pages that make up the Patriot Act, I’m sure you’ll find something that says he can ignore the 30 day notice for a prisoner swap. You’d be amazed what it says in there.

REPEAL THE PATRIOT ACT

GRANNY’S A KNOCKOUT

“Aston Grandmom Who Knows” gave a Joe Frazier left hook to “John From Glen Mills” on his Fox News talking point recycling. Go, Grandmom!

BOXING FAN

MARCHING ORDERS

To the caller claiming President Obama is ordering us to sign up for Obamacare, I think you know that’s not true but don’t want to back down about it. Even if it was, I’d rather be ordered by the government to sign up for something I need instead of being ordered to pay for another war or pick up the slack because of more tax cuts for the rich.